I could not get anywhere near the Puerto Rican Day Parade...
Only Florsheim shoe store I have seen in many years...Florsheim Shoes is a shoe brand in the United States. It was founded in 1892 by Milton S. Florsheim and his father Sigmund.
Until the mid-1990s, almost every mall in the United States had a Florsheim store. However, with the rise of such shoe stores as Journeys and Finish Line, and the de-emphasis of shoe stores in American malls, most Florsheim stores closed down by the early 2000s. This followed the fate of other companies such as Kinney Shoes and Thom McAn.
In 2002, the company was repurchased by members of the founding family. Thomas W. Florsheim, Jr. and John W. Florsheim of Weyco Group, based in Glendale, Wisconsin, repurchased the brand for $47 million from rival Florsheim Group, according to the Wall Street Journal.[citation needed]
Did not realize this restaurant was a Seafood Place until I walked past the front door..
This refurbished grand old building has Canadian, American , and (?) flags flying.
Ever since I was a kid I have heard people complaining about the price of children's clothing.
I find this a really interesting shop.
I am not as aware of Bulgari as say, Cartier.
Was on Fifth Avenue many years ago with some friends from Italy and one of them wanted to know how many centuries St.Patrick's had been there...they were surprised to find it was barely one century old.*The cathedral is built of brick, not marble because brick is stronger. However, it was then covered with marble, quarried in New York and Massachusetts.
More people checking out one of the jewelers on Fifth Avenue.
In the heart of Midtown ( Fifth Avenue and 58th Street), the Paris shows great first run
Hammacher Schlemmer has always been famous for its novelty products and gift ideas....| Year | First |
| 1862-1863 | Was one of the first companies to issue “Rebellion Tokens” during the Civil War |
| 1878 | Among first 271 subscribers listed in New York City Bell Telephone directory |
| 1896 | One of the first in the country to have electric lighting in showroom |
| 1899 | First home delivery service driven by automobile |
| 1930 | Pop-Up Toaster |
| 1930 | Portable Radio |
| 1931 | First houseware catalog (first for Hammacher, and first of its kind in the country) |
| 1934 | Electric Dry Shaver |
| 1934 | Waring Blender (in the 30s Fred Waring created this unusual device because his wife’s illness meant that she could only eat mashed foods)/Electric Food Processor |
| 1935 | Miss Palmer is the first female salesperson at the store on 57th Street |
| 1948 | Automatic Steam Iron |
| 1948 | Electric Broom |
| 1955 | First Electric Toothbrush |
| 1961 | Home Bowling Alley |
| 1961 | “Nothing Box” |
| 1968 | “Telephone Valet”- Answering Machine |
| 1968 | Radarange Microwave Oven |
| 1971 | Cordless Telephone |
| 1973 | Mr. Coffee |
| 1976 | Cuisinart Food Processor |
| 1977 | First full color catalog for Hammacher Schlemmer |
| 1994 | Integrated Caller ID & Digital Answering Machine |
| 1998 | Recordable Compact Disc Player |
| 2002 | 'Roomba' robotic vacuum cleaner |
| Hand-Held Paperless Fax Viewer | |
| Electric Can Opener | |
| Stainless Steel Kitchenware | |
| Schick Razor | |
| Salton Hotray | |
| Home Freezer | |
| Mechanical Ice Crusher | |
| Plug-In Intercom | |
| Card Shuffler | |
| Martini Mixer | |
| Battery-Operated Radio | |
| Battery-Operated Toothbrush |
I have been to Comedy Clubs only rarely.
Every group in NYC has a parade at some point it seems.Aklan is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas. Its capital is Kalibo. It is located at the northwest portion of Panay Island, bordering Antique Province to the southwest, and Capiz Province to the east. Aklan faces the Sibuyan Sea and Romblon Province to the north.
Tiffany started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive.
In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm's interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. Tiffany worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall.[4][5][6]
A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios.
In the beginning of his career, Tiffany used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundred of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany's chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s.
In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrile in conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons.
Of course, Tiffany is also associated with fine jewelry. To quote Wikipedia againFor many of the pieces that Tiffany produced during this time, his focus gravitated towards flower-like inspirations. The nature theme was also a current motif that occurred in many of his other works. He also produced some pieces based on Etruscan prototypes.[3]
Motifs such as wild carrots, dandelions, birds and blackberries were quite common. The scarab theme was also used quite frequently as a decorative motive in his jewelry and desktop items.[4] It is noted that many of the pieces took on a very chunky appearance, reminiscent of the jewelry worn by the Celts. His work was very different from the airy, fluttery look of the Art Nouveau.[5] Tiffany’s jewelry can be categorized into two main areas of influence, naturalism and historicism, but after further investigation it is apparent that he had many other influences, some being quite unidentifiable.[6] How does he use colour and pattern?
Most of Tiffany’s work has a lot of pattern, and looks busy but his use of colour makes his work stand out from everyone else’s. He uses mostly different tones of greens, blues and yellows in his glass work and lamps.
Years ago, I went with a group of people and we rented bikes and rode through Central Park. It was fun.
I don't think NYC is the only place you can find these big doughy pretzels but I don't remember having seen them anywhere else.
Right near famous jeweler Harry Winston, a street vendor shows off cheaper merchandise.
There is a lot of controversy now whether using horses for these rides in Park constitutes cruelty to animals or not.
I googled up these pictures 1) from top of Empire State Building 2) of London Eye just for the hell of it.
One of my friends was not impressed by the Eye. He writes:I did see the Eye when I was in London. How could one miss it? I didn't ride it, thinking it was touristy kitsch. I would rather go to the British Museum (free) and stand in the presence of the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin marbles. Tickets to the Eye for seniors cost about $50.
Can see yet another building with Met Life on it.
Interesting how Midtown has some small fire stations.
